Check Your Vocabulary

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conjure up

decrapulate

dignified

disarray

divulge

embezzlement

impeccable

rebate

1. Set in autum and winter, Miss plum and Miss Penny allows the author to ___ evocative scenes of Greeth transformed by snow, where "every window framed a frozen picture of the most perfect artistry", of a Christmas  Eve carol - singing expedition, and of the whole village forsaking their daily tasks to ice-skate on the frozen Tarn.
2. Have you looked into Director Jin's ____?
3. Let's ____!
4. He is also charged with receiving ____ from businesses of two million dollars. 
5. The hospital is in ____.
6. People say I'm _____ and charismatic.
7. She pictured Stanley to herself, ______ dressed as always, and looking more like a retired bank manager than any retired bank manager had ever looked, sitting in Daddy's wing chair, his well- kept hands folded upon his stomach, his handsome grey head politely inclined toward the television screen, calmly and dispassionately evaluating the worth of the performers.
8. Be secret not to ____ secret information today.

Key: 1. conjure up; 2. embezzlement; 3. descapulate; 4. rebates; 5. disarray; 6. dignified; 7.impeccably; 8.divulge.

Check Your Vocabulary

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alienated 

bullion

cochlear

corral

fumble

implication

recracement

scrutinize

1. There can be a ____ within a trend.

2. ETFs that track silver prices or futures could be a better bet versus physical ____, as they can be sold quite easily if investors think prices are too frothy.

3. But we must ___ not only unnecessary actions but unnecessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don't tag along after them.

4. Her romantic life consists of an annual Christmas card from her old flame George, and her social swirl involves Stanley, a prissy neighbour who keeps her in wind for a future wife, and Hubert, a neurotic widowed priest with an ____son. 

5. Until he'd met Bethany, he'd never heard of  ____ implants.

6. he wanted to believe her, but the ___ were grim if he did.

7. She ___ with her phone and heldit out to him.

8. But when someone suggested that he take up biking, Thorp ____ the number  of "deaths per hundred million passenger miles for cycling" and "decided that the risk was too high."

Key: 1. retracement; 2. bullion; 3. corral; 4. alienated; 5. cochlear; 6. implications; 7. fumble; 8. scrutinize.